<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:59 hey did i tell you i went to the hospital what hospital hutt hospital what for campus life to organise this meeting <,> tut and um don't talk about that and um i saw my friend pat richardson who works in the lab and um <.>in in the blood where they test all the blood and he operates this hundred and sixty thousand dollar machine word computer and that's got touch screen like it says you know enter on <.>this screen and you enter you push enter yeah it's good and the hutt hospital bought this machine which does the same thing with a printer for a hundred grand and they only sold it for five why was that cos <.>all every hospital's got one and there's not a hospital in new zealand that you can resell them to yeah so they just sell them for parts <,,> then he showed me all the <.>blood all the blood <.>eh heaps of blood <,> and um he was telling me about this operation that actually happened today first time in new zealand and it's this skin and they've grown it on this <&>6:00 jelly and it grows out then it's a synthetic skin yeah and um they're putting it on this guy who's got ninety percent burns he torched himself oh yeah silly cunt doing that and er so they obviously can't graft his skin word like word squeeze it out of your eye <{><[>laughs <[>and er yeah anyway so mister proctor was telling <.>about that they put this skin on and then your actual skin grows on to it mm and then it grows through it and the synthetic skin actually goes sounds like a good idea eh yeah and <.>they they did that today for the first time in new zealand and they had TEN units of blood that means just under a pint of blood on spare for this guy ten milk bottles in there you know <,,> pretty incredible mm so i was only going to spend five minutes there word and i ended up spending two hours there he was showing me around we went to microbiology and they got this big industrial freezer and it goes up <&>7:00 to minus eighty degrees laughs you have to wear gloves to open it otherwise you burn your fingers mm don't do that word poor buggers laughs <{><[>laughs laughs <[>laughs mm <,,><&>3 dean only got thirty dollars for that work on saturday eh that's all right i only get thirty bucks a day yeah but it was four hours and it was a saturday he should have got more than that <,> it was pretty hard work as well i suppose at seven dollars fifty it's better than just sitting around doing nothing eh yeah oh well <,,> mm <,,><&>9 so what good memories do you have of working at hugh's <,,><&>4 none they're all bad nah <.>it's it's a good place to work you didn't really have to work if you didn't want to you could spend all <&>8:00 day doing nothing it's a <{1><[1>appalling it's a <{2><[2>charming attitude eh? <[1>really <[2>you can't do that at my work it's too <.>small it's too small at my work mm at hugh's you <.>could if you didn't want to work you could just avoid all the bosses and just work word really yeah it was pretty easy what <.>about they must know what jobs you're on and all that yeah but they <.>just <,> like the manager was a real wimp he wouldn't confront you and that and tell you to work <,> we used to be able to have fridays off without ringing up <.>and laughs it was pretty good if we have a monday or a friday off we have to have a doctor's certificate yeah <,,><&>6 they can be word <,,><&>9 so isn't it time for jesus laughs <{><[>laughs <[>eh you knew it'd get around to that eh <,,> you know <&>9:00 that poster? it says i work for a jewish carpenter <,> isn't it time for jesus <,,> no <{><[>no i don't <[>oh do you get it <,,> the jewish carpenter? jesus yeah <,,><&>3 mm <,,><&>4 so what do you think of the second coming <,,><&>4 what i think of the second coming i don't know what do you think of the second coming fucking awesome laughs looking forward to it but people reckon it's going to be pretty SOON like around two thousand <,> and that's a popular opinion yeah but er word but um oh i think it's okay they prophesised that they'd have numbers on everything eh yeah well that's coming in isn't it yeah like with the um kiwi card and your social welfare card that's coming in <&>10:00 i reckon everyone's just going to have <,> a bank <.>account not really a bank account but <.>a a number yeah and you won't have any cash money you'll <{><[>just have an account <[>well that's in the bible the cashless society yeah you just go into a <.>s um a supermarket or <{><[><,> car dealer and yeah just if you got credit <.>if you know you can afford it you can afford it if you can't you can't <[>and they'll bleep it yeah well that's in <{><[>the bible <[>that way the government will be able to control heaps of stuff it's called big brother and there's a one world government in the bible and see that was coming about in the last american election one world government yeah the word word yeah all the prophecies are being filled things <.>like <,,><&>13 <&>11:00 so what was your first girlfriend's name <,,> my first girlfriend <,,> word short word laughs what under five foot yeah yeah shit who knows who cares really yeah nah mm who that stupid miranda eh? miranda who? down here? no in epuni word word he and her families word don't get on word eh laughs torn apart and shattered <,,><&>12 over to you with the weather jim <{><[>laughs over to you with the weather jim <&>12:00 <[>eh mm <,,><&>7 seven minutes okay yeah had a few <,> life threatening situations word oh yeah mm <,> <{1><[1>word laughs going to the toilet after I'VE used it <{2><[2>laughs <[1>what <[2>laughs laughs <{><[>laughs laughs <[>laughs eh have I mm oh i remember when i was going out with melody <.>and and callum rang up and he goes are you there i'm going to kill you laughs i thought may the lord bless you my best friend laughs oh no word laughs no i was actually very scared mm no i actually did think he would kill me literally because he sounded very angry and <&>13:00 <.>like you could tell that his mother <.>back had taken him off the pottie too early thus increasing his anger word laughs no you tell me about your word <,,><&>3 um <,,> i remember we went to a party one night with um geordie jason and patrick and patrick had a mini and er we'd been up all night tut and it was just really early in the morning we were just racing round <.>and and i think patrick was word a bit drunk <,> and he tried to go round this corner too fast and went straight into a brick wall mm <.>but i remember that none of us were hurt that's all right eh mm though not very nice <.>because cos the owner of the house came out didn't do any damage to the wall and she said stay here <,> we <&>14:00 just all walked off and er anyway t arrived and they word so then we walked off and then er like the <.>driver patrick had already ran off and um then the police finally came and asked us if we knew who the driver was and we weren't going to tell him who the driver was so arrested us straight away <,> and we got done for um failing to give information about the driver bet you thought you had a right to remain silent eh mm so you took up that right tut yeah but that's not a life threatening situation it is <.>crashing crashing into a wall at eighty k oh yeah it's not all full of fun is it mm <,,><&>5 my most life threatening situation was probably going about seventy kilometres an hour down the haywards and losing my brakes on a push bike yeah that's pretty dangerous as well isn't it <,> <{1><[1>remember that time when you came down logan street you went straight off <{2><[2>the front of your push bike <[1>word <[2>laughs and you were following me yeah <&>15:00 with glen dyson on the back yeah and i was i was all right laughs that looked fucking a the lord's hand was upon me laughs straight over the handle bars i passed you on your motor bike and carried on down <{><[>i didn't know how <.>w wicked that corner was <[>mm laughs it looked real funny eh laughs cos you saw the whole thing eh mm i must have been doing about eighty ks word the corner you must have been i thought you were all cleared eh <{><[>i was quite worried <[>nah i was quite word laughs you were doing eighty k and you come flying round the corner and you just disappear <{1><[1>straight off flying over the handle bars i went <{2><[2>oh <,> what have you done word <[1>laughs <[2>laughs that was funny eh yeah <,,><&>5 but what about your gun episodes haven't you had a few of them gun <,> oh yeah it's um <,,><&>3 <.>s glen you know glen i used to work with at hugh's yeah he had some <,> friends in town it was his sister <&>16:00 and his <,> his um <,> sister's boyfriend we used to go in there quite a bit and just muck round in there and er we were over at the next door neighbours just talking to them we hear this knock on the door and this <.>maori oh <.>this maori guy comes in with two other big guys and just pulls out a gun and points it <,> straight at this guy and says he owes him money and he wants two grand cash now and these other two guys start smashing up the place and er <,> you know we couldn't do anything because the guy had a gun <,,> and it was quite exhales freaky that'd be quite a buttock clenching moment wouldn't it oh yeah it would mate sweaty bottom eh <,,><&>5 i mean just say you're going to chat with him about this conversation laughs <,,><&>3 yeah it was in the paper the next day was it mm why eventually <.>the you know they <.>didn't the guys <&>17:00 weren't sure what to do and they eventually rang the police cos they <.>had this guy aaron in <.>this in a room by himself and he <.>started them guys were still outside going through everyone's room and that <,> and um yeah apparently he fired a few shots at him just not at him but round the room i think it was about six <.>s <,> six shots in all word what a life style yeah <,,> it's pretty bad news have you heard the good news <,,><&>3 laughs no the good news have you heard the good news what's the good news jesus is coming mm that's the good news <,,><&>6 <&>18:00 even better news is there's only a couple more minutes laughs <,,> tut so what do you hope to be doing when you're fifty four er exhales fifty four? don't know <,,><&>4 don't know <,,> reckon you'll be able to grow a full beard by then hopefully laughs with any luck my grandma's got a better moustache than i can get yeah i've been going through puberty a long time laughs and i'm just looking forward to it <,,><&>7 fifty four for me tut double my age in cash assets tut <,,><&>3 have a couple of wives by then and <,,> um a couple of kids and <,,><&>4 and <,,> heaps of converts <,,><&>3 <&>19:00 <,,><&>23 so what do you think of fergie <.>and <,,> what's her boyfriend's name andy andy fergie and andy breaking up are you upset by it no i think the royal family's <,,><&>4 pretty stupid is pretty stupid the best word you could find to describe <{><[>word <[>no it's a replacement word for something else is your vocabulary word <&>20:00 mm it's not wonderful word no it's pretty inconsiderable mine is if only i could use my vocabulary <,,> but like my dad knows real big words like he uses big words like wheelbarrow and er bulldozer mm exhales that's every time he uses bulldozer but um i think the royal family is just unjust <{1><[1>i <.>think i think the monarchy <{2><[2><.>is <[1>mm <[2>oh yeah typical of stupidity typify stupidity <{><[>yeah analysing word <[>yeah sniffs it does because it does typify stupidity mm and the monarchy is just up the duff because <{><[>word you know how the monarchy governs <.>what what jewels they get and they get given by a country <[>word mm whether they like it or not if they like it it's theirs if they don't like it it's the state's <,> simple as that mm <,,> yeah i don't think people should be born into <,> higher status than anyone else we don't need them or anything no <&>20:57